LETTER OF GIFT.

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE THOMPSON FUND, HARTFORD MEETING, AUGUST, 1874.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

DESCRIPTIVE. NYMPHALES PRAETORES OREADES. Genus NEORINOPIS Butler .

COMPARATIVE AGE OF FOSSIL BUTTERFLIES.

PROBABLE FOOD-PLANTS OF TERTIARY CATERPILLARS.

PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF BUTTERFLIES MOST NEARLY ALLIED TO FOSSIL SPECIES.

GENERAL RESUME, WITH NOTICES OF UNDETERMINED FORMS.

NOTICE OF INSECTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ERRONEOUSLY REFERRED IN

FOOTNOTES

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

LIST OF WOOD CUTS.

ERRATA.

MEMOIRS
OF THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
I.

SALEM, MASS.
F. W. PUTNAM, PERMANENT SECRETARY, A.A.A.S.
1875.

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